A leyline is an alignment of significant locations thought to correspond to an underlying network of mystical energy woven across the globe. This concept was popularised by author and esotericist, John Michell, whose 1969 book “The View Over Atlantis” has been credited with inspiring the genre of “earth mysteries” books in the 70’s and 80’s, and putting the small town of Glastonbury at the centre of the counter-culture movement. 

The image above is a record of my four-day journey along a section of the St Michael’s Leyline, which connects spiritually important sites from St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall to Bury St Edmond’s Abbey, via Glastonbury Tor and Avebury Henge. Using a pinhole camera to make about 40 individual, overlapping exposures on a single roll of film I created a blended image of places along the leyline’s - a transection of the landscape stretched across time and space to form a Bayeax-tapestry-like narrative. I chose the places to photograph according to my own sense of significance, allowing for the most subjective and responsive interpretation of “spiritual” - as such the image is also a document of an emotional journey.